Wasnt the dog still being trained as a hunting dog, for pheasants or other wild fowl? Only a few months old? Weren't the chickens in an environment the dog wasnt used to?

Seems like a failure of the person training them, not of the dog itself. Both a failure in training as well as in keeping them properly secured in a situation that could have proved dangerous.

I also grew up rural. If a dog killed chickens, the dog would be separated and retrained. If you have to kill the dog because it's not trained properly, it's a personal failing of the owner. Take the Personal Responsibility that you types so cherish.

Killed chickens.... during training to hunt and kill pheasants according to one of the other articles on the subject. A 14 month old dog wouldn't know the difference.

Ah, yes. The oldest and most sacred rural tradition. Reckless violence due to irresponsibility

Why couldn't you get a trainer or call a dog rescue? Like a non-sociopath would? For pity's sake!

No you didn't, your parents were just incompetent dog owners, same as this 'lady'.

With heavy "in America" emphasis, also.

Elsewhere in the world, e.g. the uk - in which i grew up in a farming village thank you very much - if you want to hunt a pheasant you shoot it in the air (during "flush", usually brought on by a designated "beater"), shooting it on the ground or using a dog to kill it is unlawful, inhumane, and possibly worst of all: unsportsmanlike.

If you want to farm pheasants you rotate the rearing fields each year and you slaughter them in a slaughterhouse approved by the FSA overseen by qualified (CoC) operators.

... give the dog away...

Really? We just moved them elsewhere.